[yocto] potentially confusing explanation of "defconfig" in kernel dev manual

[Robert P. J. Day]

  here:

http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/latest/kernel-dev/kernel-dev.html#changing-the-configuration

one reads:

"If you have a complete Linux kernel .config file you want to use,
copy it to the ${FILES} directory within your layer and name it
"defconfig"."

  that pretty clearly suggests that the "defconfig" file *must*
represent a *complete* .config file. but just above that, you read:

"You can make wholesale or incremental changes to the Linux kernel
.config file by including a defconfig or by specifying configuration
fragments in the SRC_URI."

  so it's confusing -- must defconfig represent a complete .config
file, or can it represent a fragment?

rday

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